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== Life and career ==
== Life and career ==
Syam Sudhakar was born in 1983 in Vadanamkurissi, a village in Palakkad District, Kerala.<ref>{{cite web|title=Syam Sudhakar|url=https://www.veethi.com/india-people/syam_sudhakar-profile-14550-25.htm|publisher=Veethi : The Face of India |access-date=1 June 2021}}</ref> After his early education at K.V.R.H.S and G.H.S.S Vadanamkurissi, he completed his graduation in English and History from [[St. Thomas College, Thrissur]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Indian Poets|url=https://www.krityapoetryfestival.com/national-poets/|publisher=Kritya Poetry Festival |access-date=3 June 2021}}</ref> He pursued his Masters in English Literature from the [[University of Madras]], M. Phil with a specialization on Dravidian Aesthetics from [[Presidency College, Chennai]] and Ph.D in [[Beat Generation]] Literature from the University of Madras.<ref>{{cite web|title=Syam Sudhakar|url=https://www.ssoa.com.au/ssoa-authors/Syam-Sudhakar|website=Sydney School of Arts and Humanities|publisher=Sydney School of Arts and Humanities |access-date= 3 June 2021}}</ref>
Syam Sudhakar was born in 1983 in Vadanamkurissi, a village in Palakkad District, Kerala.<ref>{{cite web|title=Syam Sudhakar|url=https://www.veethi.com/india-people/syam_sudhakar-profile-14550-25.htm|publisher=Veethi : The Face of India |access-date=1 June 2021}}</ref> After his early education at K.V.R.H.S and G.H.S.S Vadanamkurissi, he completed his graduation in English and History from [[St. Thomas College, Thrissur]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Indian Poets|url=https://www.krityapoetryfestival.com/national-poets/|publisher=Kritya Poetry Festival |access-date=3 June 2021}}</ref> He pursued his master's degree in English Literature from the [[University of Madras]], M.Phil. with a specialization on Dravidian Aesthetics from [[Presidency College, Chennai]] and Ph.D. in [[Beat Generation]] Literature from the University of Madras.<ref>{{cite web|title=Syam Sudhakar|url=https://www.ssoa.com.au/ssoa-authors/Syam-Sudhakar|website=Sydney School of Arts and Humanities|publisher=Sydney School of Arts and Humanities |access-date= 3 June 2021}}</ref>


He is also one of the founder members of Centre for Performance Research and [[Cultural Studies]] in South Asia and the Poetry Advisor of Sydney School of Arts and Humanities.<ref>{{cite web|title=Sydney School of Arts and Humanities : Writing Coaches and Book Coaches|url=https://www.ssoa.com.au/book-coach|website=Sydney School of Arts and Humanities|publisher=Sydney School of Arts and Humanities |access-date=4 June 2021}}</ref> Sudhakar was associated with a research project on [[Gender Studies]] in [[IIT Madras]] and worked at [[Christ College, Irinjalakuda]] and VIT, Chennai before he began his teaching career at St. Thomas College, Thrissur.<ref>{{cite web|title=Syam Sudhakar|url=https://www.veethi.com/india-people/syam_sudhakar-profile-14550-25.htm|publisher=Veethi : The Face of India |access-date=5 June 2021}}</ref>
He is also one of the founder members of Centre for Performance Research and [[Cultural Studies]] in South Asia and the Poetry Advisor of Sydney School of Arts and Humanities.<ref>{{cite web|title=Sydney School of Arts and Humanities : Writing Coaches and Book Coaches|url=https://www.ssoa.com.au/book-coach|website=Sydney School of Arts and Humanities|publisher=Sydney School of Arts and Humanities |access-date=4 June 2021}}</ref> Sudhakar was associated with a research project on [[Gender Studies]] in [[IIT Madras]] and worked at [[Christ College, Irinjalakuda]] and VIT, Chennai before he began his teaching career at St. Thomas College, Thrissur.<ref>{{cite web|title=Syam Sudhakar|url=https://www.veethi.com/india-people/syam_sudhakar-profile-14550-25.htm|publisher=Veethi : The Face of India |access-date=5 June 2021}}</ref>


== Criticism ==
== Criticism ==
The sound patterns on which Malayalam poetry functions is moulded to perfection in the poetry of Syam Sudhakar.<ref name="sound patterns">{{cite book|last=Sukumaran|title=Syam Sudhakar Kavithaikal|year=2008|publisher=New Century Books|location=Chennai|pages=7|isbn=978-81-234-1400-3}} [Introduction]</ref> Being a member of the younger generation, the visual [[media culture]] that defines this generation has left a mark on him, which in turn is reflected in his poetry.<ref name=visual>{{cite news|last=Jeeva|first=Putiya|title=Interview|newspaper=Dinamani Kathir|date=2009-01-25|pages=11, 30}}</ref> Other than the presence of rich visual imagery, Sudhakar's primary forte is his use of the technique of [[magic realism]] which till date has been hardly used by Indian poets so extensively.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ijar.org.in/stuff/issues/v6-i10/v6-i10-a016|title='I hanged myself- the soul climbed up the rope and reached the sky': The Use of Magic (al) Realism in select poems of Syam Sudhakar’s Drenched by the Sun|last=Chakraborty |first=Anamika |date=2019-10-10 |website=International Journal of Academic Research |language=en |access-date=3 June 2021}}</ref> The rich heritage of Indian [[myth]], [[folklore]] and superstitions had been a part of Sudhakar’s growing up years; it is this heritage that Sudhakar tries to express through his poems, as he says, “My home was surrounded with fields shining in the blazing sun. I have grown up with ghost stories and colourful folk tales. All of them find a space in my work, which is my way of connecting with my roots”.<ref>{{cite news|last=Nath|first=Parshathy J.|title= Of suicidal spiders and cheesecakes|newspaper=The Hindu|date=2016-05-13|pages=16, 30}}</ref>  Critic Anamika Chakraborty points out that "regional presence is one of the key components of the concept of [[magical realism]], because the magical is inherent in the diverse [[ethnic]] culture, history and tradition, flora and fauna in Sudhakar’s native Kerala. Through the use of magical realism Sudhakar can easily convince the dubious reader about the reality of the supernatural. So the reader is convinced that ‘stepping stones’ can be made of ‘cheese-cakes’ and the ‘sinking boatman plucks a rainbow and it turns into a boat’".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ijar.org.in/stuff/issues/v6-i10/v6-i10-a016|title='I hanged myself- the soul climbed up the rope and reached the sky': The Use of Magic (al) Realism in select poems of Syam Sudhakar’s Drenched by the Sun|last=Chakraborty |first=Anamika |date=2019-10-10 |website=International Journal of Academic Research |language=en |access-date=6 June 2021}}</ref>
The sound patterns on which Malayalam poetry functions is moulded to perfection in the poetry of Syam Sudhakar.<ref name="sound patterns">{{cite book|last=Sukumaran|title=Syam Sudhakar Kavithaikal|year=2008|publisher=New Century Books|location=Chennai|pages=7|isbn=978-81-234-1400-3}} [Introduction]</ref> Being a member of the younger generation, the visual [[media culture]] that defines this generation has left a mark on him, which in turn is reflected in his poetry.<ref name=visual>{{cite news|last=Jeeva|first=Putiya|title=Interview|newspaper=Dinamani Kathir|date=2009-01-25|pages=11, 30}}</ref> Other than the presence of rich visual imagery, Sudhakar's primary forte is his use of the technique of [[magic realism]] which until date has been hardly used by Indian poets so extensively.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ijar.org.in/stuff/issues/v6-i10/v6-i10-a016|title='I hanged myself- the soul climbed up the rope and reached the sky': The Use of Magic (al) Realism in select poems of Syam Sudhakar’s Drenched by the Sun|last=Chakraborty |first=Anamika |date=2019-10-10 |website=International Journal of Academic Research |language=en |access-date=3 June 2021}}</ref> The rich heritage of Indian [[myth]], [[folklore]] and superstitions had been a part of Sudhakar's growing up years; it is this heritage that Sudhakar tries to express through his poems, as he says, “My home was surrounded with fields shining in the blazing sun. I have grown up with ghost stories and colourful folk tales. All of them find a space in my work, which is my way of connecting with my roots”.<ref>{{cite news|last=Nath|first=Parshathy J.|title= Of suicidal spiders and cheesecakes|newspaper=The Hindu|date=2016-05-13|pages=16, 30}}</ref>  Critic Anamika Chakraborty points out that "regional presence is one of the key components of the concept of [[magical realism]], because the magical is inherent in the diverse [[ethnic]] culture, history and tradition, flora and fauna in Sudhakar’s native Kerala. Through the use of magical realism Sudhakar can easily convince the dubious reader about the reality of the supernatural. So the reader is convinced that ‘stepping stones’ can be made of ‘cheese-cakes’ and the ‘sinking boatman plucks a rainbow and it turns into a boat’".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ijar.org.in/stuff/issues/v6-i10/v6-i10-a016|title='I hanged myself- the soul climbed up the rope and reached the sky': The Use of Magic (al) Realism in select poems of Syam Sudhakar’s Drenched by the Sun|last=Chakraborty |first=Anamika |date=2019-10-10 |website=International Journal of Academic Research |language=en |access-date=6 June 2021}}</ref>


[[K. Satchidanandan]] notes that his poems revel in linguistic play and thus interiorize the ontological essence of poetry.<ref>{{cite book|last=Satchidanandan|first=K.|title=Earpam|year=2001|publisher=Pappiyon Books|location=Kozhikode|pages=9}} [Introduction]</ref> He points out that it is difficult to narrow in on a particular theme or story in his poems.<ref>{{cite book|last=Satchidanandan|first=K.|title=Earpam|year=2001|publisher=Pappiyon Books|location=Kozhikode|pages=9}} [Introduction]</ref> Sudhakar finds inspiration in the natural landscape which he celebrates in his one-of-a-kind imagery which can be seen as a hall mark of his poetry.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.the-criterion.com/V11/n6/IN11|title=Portraying Death in ‘a Melted Pallet’: Revisiting Select Poems of Syam Sudhakar|last=Sinha |first=Mandika|date=2020-12-31 |website=The Criterion: An International Journal in English|language=en |access-date=5 June 2021}}</ref> He is known for his use of images that are at once real and magical and often have a dream- like quality, with layers of meanings.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.the-criterion.com/V11/n4/Anamika|title=Adding new perspectives to the aesthetics of Indian Poetry in English : An interview with Indian bilingual poet, Syam Sudhakar|last=Chakraborty |first=Anamika |date=2020-08-11 |website=The Criterion: An International Journal in English|language=en |access-date=2 June 2021}}</ref> One can comfortably and consciously claim that along with his use of myth and [[legend]], Sudhakar’s verses are technically sound and resonate with a wide range of themes.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://museindia.com/Home/ViewContentData?arttype=articles&issid=95&menuid=9261|title=How Myth Matters in Literature – Decoding Syam Sudhakar’s Select Poems|last1=Chakraborty |first1=Anamika |last2=Ray|first2=Subrata| date=2021-01-20 |website=Muse India : The Literary ejournal|language=en |access-date=2 June 2021}}</ref> The major themes of Sudhakar’s poems are that of time and death and love; for Sudhakar time is cyclical rather than linear.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ijar.org.in/stuff/issues/v6-i10/v6-i10-a016|title='I hanged myself- the soul climbed up the rope and reached the sky': The Use of Magic (al) Realism in select poems of Syam Sudhakar’s Drenched by the Sun|last=Chakraborty |first=Anamika |date=2019-10-10 |website=International Journal of Academic Research |language=en |access-date=6 June 2021}}</ref> One can see that Sudhakar is quite meticulous in portraying death; with a nonchalance that can only be attributed to the ever-prevalent sense of disillusionment infused in the postmodern mind.<ref>{{Cite web| url= https://www.the-criterion.com/V12/n3/CM02. |title= Romantic Body v/s Postmodern Body: A Comparative Analysis on the Concept of Desire in Walt Whitman’s A Woman Waits for Me and Syam Sudhakar’s Lady Spider’s Suicide Note|last=Berkumon |first=Rachel |date=2021-06-30 |website=The Criterion: An International Journal in English |language=en |access-date=6 July 2021}}</ref> Razeena P R remarks, "by associating death with the course of nature; sunrise and sunset, waves on the shore, and meteors, Sudhakar has conveyed a sense of the inescapability and inevitability of death".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://adlitteramjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/21.-Razeena_Article_Ad-Litteram-Journal_December-2020-Edition_Volume-5|title=Towards Loneliness and Infinitude: An Analysis of the theme of ‘Death’ and ‘Mortality’ in Select Poems of Syam Sudhakar|last= P R |first=Razeena|date=2020-12-20 |website=Ad Litteram : An English Journal of International Literati|language=en |access-date=4 June 2021}}</ref> It is his preoccupation with death, dying and afterlife which binds his poems together.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.the-criterion.com/V11/n6/IN11|title=Portraying Death in ‘a Melted Pallet’: Revisiting Select Poems of Syam Sudhakar|last=Sinha |first=Mandika|date=2020-12-31 |website=The Criterion: An International Journal in English|language=en |access-date=3 June 2021}}</ref> Sudhakar remarks that "Every good poem is a drop from a star which always twinkles in your heart. It makes you feel as if you are in love, it makes your eyes wet, throat choke".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.the-criterion.com/V11/n4/Anamika|title=Adding new perspectives to the aesthetics of Indian Poetry in English : An interview with Indian bilingual poet, Syam Sudhakar|last=Chakraborty |first=Anamika |date=2020-08-11 |website=The Criterion: An International Journal in English|language=en |access-date=5 June 2021}}</ref>
[[K. Satchidanandan]] notes that his poems revel in linguistic play and thus interiorize the ontological essence of poetry.<ref>{{cite book|last=Satchidanandan|first=K.|title=Earpam|year=2001|publisher=Pappiyon Books|location=Kozhikode|pages=9}} [Introduction]</ref> He points out that it is difficult to narrow in on a particular theme or story in his poems.<ref>{{cite book|last=Satchidanandan|first=K.|title=Earpam|year=2001|publisher=Pappiyon Books|location=Kozhikode|pages=9}} [Introduction]</ref> Sudhakar finds inspiration in the natural landscape which he celebrates in his one-of-a-kind imagery which can be seen as a hall mark of his poetry.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.the-criterion.com/V11/n6/IN11|title=Portraying Death in ‘a Melted Pallet’: Revisiting Select Poems of Syam Sudhakar|last=Sinha |first=Mandika|date=2020-12-31 |website=The Criterion: An International Journal in English|language=en |access-date=5 June 2021}}</ref> He is known for his use of images that are at once real and magical and often have a dream- like quality, with layers of meanings.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.the-criterion.com/V11/n4/Anamika|title=Adding new perspectives to the aesthetics of Indian Poetry in English : An interview with Indian bilingual poet, Syam Sudhakar|last=Chakraborty |first=Anamika |date=2020-08-11 |website=The Criterion: An International Journal in English|language=en |access-date=2 June 2021}}</ref> One can comfortably and consciously claim that along with his use of myth and [[legend]], Sudhakar’s verses are technically sound and resonate with a wide range of themes.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://museindia.com/Home/ViewContentData?arttype=articles&issid=95&menuid=9261|title=How Myth Matters in Literature – Decoding Syam Sudhakar’s Select Poems|last1=Chakraborty |first1=Anamika |last2=Ray|first2=Subrata| date=2021-01-20 |website=Muse India : The Literary ejournal|language=en |access-date=2 June 2021}}</ref> The major themes of Sudhakar’s poems are that of time and death and love; for Sudhakar time is cyclical rather than linear.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ijar.org.in/stuff/issues/v6-i10/v6-i10-a016|title='I hanged myself- the soul climbed up the rope and reached the sky': The Use of Magic (al) Realism in select poems of Syam Sudhakar’s Drenched by the Sun|last=Chakraborty |first=Anamika |date=2019-10-10 |website=International Journal of Academic Research |language=en |access-date=6 June 2021}}</ref> One can see that Sudhakar is quite meticulous in portraying death; with a nonchalance that can only be attributed to the ever-prevalent sense of disillusionment infused in the postmodern mind.<ref>{{Cite web| url= https://www.the-criterion.com/V12/n3/CM02. |title= Romantic Body v/s Postmodern Body: A Comparative Analysis on the Concept of Desire in Walt Whitman’s A Woman Waits for Me and Syam Sudhakar’s Lady Spider’s Suicide Note|last=Berkumon |first=Rachel |date=2021-06-30 |website=The Criterion: An International Journal in English |language=en |access-date=6 July 2021}}</ref> Razeena P R remarks, "by associating death with the course of nature; sunrise and sunset, waves on the shore, and meteors, Sudhakar has conveyed a sense of the inescapability and inevitability of death".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://adlitteramjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/21.-Razeena_Article_Ad-Litteram-Journal_December-2020-Edition_Volume-5|title=Towards Loneliness and Infinitude: An Analysis of the theme of ‘Death’ and ‘Mortality’ in Select Poems of Syam Sudhakar|last= P R |first=Razeena|date=2020-12-20 |website=Ad Litteram : An English Journal of International Literati|language=en |access-date=4 June 2021}}</ref> It is his preoccupation with death, dying and afterlife which binds his poems together.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.the-criterion.com/V11/n6/IN11|title=Portraying Death in ‘a Melted Pallet’: Revisiting Select Poems of Syam Sudhakar|last=Sinha |first=Mandika|date=2020-12-31 |website=The Criterion: An International Journal in English|language=en |access-date=3 June 2021}}</ref> Sudhakar remarks that "Every good poem is a drop from a star which always twinkles in your heart. It makes you feel as if you are in love, it makes your eyes wet, throat choke".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.the-criterion.com/V11/n4/Anamika|title=Adding new perspectives to the aesthetics of Indian Poetry in English : An interview with Indian bilingual poet, Syam Sudhakar|last=Chakraborty |first=Anamika |date=2020-08-11 |website=The Criterion: An International Journal in English|language=en |access-date=5 June 2021}}</ref>


Sudhakar occasionally delves in a subtle form of commentary on the socio-political scenario.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.the-criterion.com/V11/n6/IN11|title=Portraying Death in ‘a Melted Pallet’: Revisiting Select Poems of Syam Sudhakar|last=Sinha |first=Mandika|date=2020-12-31 |website=The Criterion: An International Journal in English|language=en |access-date=2 June 2021}}</ref> His poems are intensely personal on one hand and political on the other; despite the theme, the poems are loaded with [[metaphors]], images, [[allegories]] and [[dream sequences]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ijar.org.in/stuff/issues/v6-i10/v6-i10-a016|title='I hanged myself- the soul climbed up the rope and reached the sky': The Use of Magic (al) Realism in select poems of Syam Sudhakar’s Drenched by the Sun|last=Chakraborty |first=Anamika |date=2019-10-10 |website=International Journal of Academic Research |language=en |access-date=1 June 2021}}</ref> Most often in Sudhakar’s poems, the self is disillusioned, lonely and fragmented in faith and vision.<ref>{{Cite web| url= https://www.the-criterion.com/V12/n3/CM02. |title= Romantic Body v/s Postmodern Body: A Comparative Analysis on the Concept of Desire in Walt Whitman’s A Woman Waits for Me and Syam Sudhakar’s Lady Spider’s Suicide Note|last=Berkumon |first=Rachel |date=2021-06-30 |website=The Criterion: An International Journal in English |language=en |access-date=8 July 2021}}</ref> According to Mandika Sinha,  "in his poems, sometimes he is a silent observer, sometimes he is a subjective narrator and together he recreates a world with sensitivity and subtle [[humour]] where death is an everyday reality".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.the-criterion.com/V11/n6/IN11|title=Portraying Death in ‘a Melted Pallet’: Revisiting Select Poems of Syam Sudhakar|last=Sinha |first=Mandika|date=2020-12-31 |website=The Criterion: An International Journal in English|language=en |access-date=7 June 2021}}</ref> Sudhakar deals with a wide gamut of subjects and the poems in this collection are a mine of rich poetry.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ijar.org.in/stuff/issues/v6-i10/v6-i10-a016|title='I hanged myself- the soul climbed up the rope and reached the sky': The Use of Magic (al) Realism in select poems of Syam Sudhakar’s Drenched by the Sun|last=Chakraborty |first=Anamika |date=2019-10-10 |website=International Journal of Academic Research |language=en |access-date=4 June 2021}}</ref> Sudhakar’s poems employ deliberate indifference to deflate a highly emotional situation, especially by transferring a human tragedy to the animal world in the form of postmodern parody.<ref>{{Cite web| url= https://www.the-criterion.com/V12/n3/CM02. |title= Romantic Body v/s Postmodern Body: A Comparative Analysis on the Concept of Desire in Walt Whitman’s A Woman Waits for Me and Syam Sudhakar’s Lady Spider’s Suicide Note|last=Berkumon |first=Rachel |date=2021-06-30 |website=The Criterion: An International Journal in English |language=en |access-date=12 July 2021}}</ref> [[K. Satchidanandan]] observes that "Syam's world constantly de-familiarizes the familiar" and adds that "Syam is seldom [[philosophical]] , but this poem ('Happiness and Sorrow : A Crisis'), like some others, does reveal a philosophical inclination".<ref>{{cite book|last=Satchidanandan|first=K.|title= Drenched by the Sun|year=2016|publisher=Sydney School of Arts and Humanities|location=Australia|pages=12}} [Introduction]</ref>
Sudhakar occasionally delves in a subtle form of commentary on the socio-political scenario.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.the-criterion.com/V11/n6/IN11|title=Portraying Death in ‘a Melted Pallet’: Revisiting Select Poems of Syam Sudhakar|last=Sinha |first=Mandika|date=2020-12-31 |website=The Criterion: An International Journal in English|language=en |access-date=2 June 2021}}</ref> His poems are intensely personal on one hand and political on the other; despite the theme, the poems are loaded with [[metaphors]], images, [[allegories]] and [[dream sequences]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ijar.org.in/stuff/issues/v6-i10/v6-i10-a016|title='I hanged myself- the soul climbed up the rope and reached the sky': The Use of Magic (al) Realism in select poems of Syam Sudhakar’s Drenched by the Sun|last=Chakraborty |first=Anamika |date=2019-10-10 |website=International Journal of Academic Research |language=en |access-date=1 June 2021}}</ref> Most often in Sudhakar's poems, the self is disillusioned, lonely and fragmented in faith and vision.<ref>{{Cite web| url= https://www.the-criterion.com/V12/n3/CM02. |title= Romantic Body v/s Postmodern Body: A Comparative Analysis on the Concept of Desire in Walt Whitman’s A Woman Waits for Me and Syam Sudhakar’s Lady Spider’s Suicide Note|last=Berkumon |first=Rachel |date=2021-06-30 |website=The Criterion: An International Journal in English |language=en |access-date=8 July 2021}}</ref> According to Mandika Sinha,  "in his poems, sometimes he is a silent observer, sometimes he is a subjective narrator and together he recreates a world with sensitivity and subtle [[humour]] where death is an everyday reality".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.the-criterion.com/V11/n6/IN11|title=Portraying Death in ‘a Melted Pallet’: Revisiting Select Poems of Syam Sudhakar|last=Sinha |first=Mandika|date=2020-12-31 |website=The Criterion: An International Journal in English|language=en |access-date=7 June 2021}}</ref> Sudhakar deals with a wide gamut of subjects and the poems in this collection are a mine of rich poetry.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ijar.org.in/stuff/issues/v6-i10/v6-i10-a016|title='I hanged myself- the soul climbed up the rope and reached the sky': The Use of Magic (al) Realism in select poems of Syam Sudhakar’s Drenched by the Sun|last=Chakraborty |first=Anamika |date=2019-10-10 |website=International Journal of Academic Research |language=en |access-date=4 June 2021}}</ref> Sudhakar's poems employ deliberate indifference to deflate a highly emotional situation, especially by transferring a human tragedy to the animal world in the form of postmodern parody.<ref>{{Cite web| url= https://www.the-criterion.com/V12/n3/CM02. |title= Romantic Body v/s Postmodern Body: A Comparative Analysis on the Concept of Desire in Walt Whitman’s A Woman Waits for Me and Syam Sudhakar’s Lady Spider’s Suicide Note|last=Berkumon |first=Rachel |date=2021-06-30 |website=The Criterion: An International Journal in English |language=en |access-date=12 July 2021}}</ref> [[K. Satchidanandan]] observes that "Syam's world constantly de-familiarizes the familiar" and adds that "Syam is seldom [[philosophical]] , but this poem ('Happiness and Sorrow : A Crisis'), like some others, does reveal a philosophical inclination".<ref>{{cite book|last=Satchidanandan|first=K.|title= Drenched by the Sun|year=2016|publisher=Sydney School of Arts and Humanities|location=Australia|pages=12}} [Introduction]</ref>


==Awards and Achievements==
==Awards and Achievements==
One of Syam Sudhakar's early recognitions in poetry is Nandita Poetry Award, which he received in the year 2002.<ref>{{cite web|title=Syam Sudhakar|url=https://www.veethi.com/india-people/syam_sudhakar-profile-14550-25.htm|publisher=Veethi : The Face of India |access-date=3 June 2021}}</ref> He won the Vallatol Poetry Prize for poetry, conducted by [[Kerala Kalamandalam]], Cheruthurithi, Kerala, for the year 2007-2008.<ref>{{cite web|title= Dr. Syam Sudhakar|url=https://stthomas.ac.in/english/english-faculty/dr-syam-sudhakar/|publisher=St. Thomas College (Autonomous), Thrissur|access-date=4 June 2021}}</ref> He was awarded the Madras Kerala Samajam Poetry Award by Madras Kerala Samajam, [[Chennai]] in 2008.<ref>{{cite web|title=Syam Sudhakar|url=https://www.veethi.com/india-people/syam_sudhakar-profile-14550-25.htm|publisher=Veethi : The Face of India |access-date=5 June 2021}}</ref> On invitation, Sudhakar has also delivered poetry readings and lectures in [[Brisbane]] and [[Sydney]] in 2009 and 2013.<ref>{{cite web|title=Indian Poets|url=https://www.krityapoetryfestival.com/national-poets/|publisher=Kritya Poetry Festival |access-date=6 June 2021}}</ref>
One of Syam Sudhakar's early recognitions in poetry is Nandita Poetry Award, which he received in the year 2002.<ref>{{cite web|title=Syam Sudhakar|url=https://www.veethi.com/india-people/syam_sudhakar-profile-14550-25.htm|publisher=Veethi : The Face of India |access-date=3 June 2021}}</ref> He won the Vallatol Poetry Prize for poetry, conducted by [[Kerala Kalamandalam]], Cheruthurithi, Kerala, for the year 2007–2008.<ref>{{cite web|title= Dr. Syam Sudhakar|url=https://stthomas.ac.in/english/english-faculty/dr-syam-sudhakar/|publisher=St. Thomas College (Autonomous), Thrissur|access-date=4 June 2021}}</ref> He was awarded the Madras Kerala Samajam Poetry Award by Madras Kerala Samajam, [[Chennai]] in 2008.<ref>{{cite web|title=Syam Sudhakar|url=https://www.veethi.com/india-people/syam_sudhakar-profile-14550-25.htm|publisher=Veethi : The Face of India |access-date=5 June 2021}}</ref> On invitation, Sudhakar has also delivered poetry readings and lectures in [[Brisbane]] and [[Sydney]] in 2009 and 2013.<ref>{{cite web|title=Indian Poets|url=https://www.krityapoetryfestival.com/national-poets/|publisher=Kritya Poetry Festival |access-date=6 June 2021}}</ref>


==Works==
==Works==
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